Yup. It was after something else little me was actually trying to watch. Couldn’t unsee.

Yeah, I haven’t noticed an unusual amount. Lemmy is still mostly Americans, and then maybe Brits and Germans. Just anyone that can speak English and has had broadband long enough to acclimatise to nerd culture.

It’s true. Without Japan being dumb they probably would have live-and-let-lived Hitler, even.

Kind of ironic on a meme about how it’s doing poorly, though.

It’s seriously looking like both Cold War powers will be caught in a terminal forever war, that they refuse to call a war, at the same time but for different reasons.

I almost forgot this is the joke timeline for a moment there.

I think I literally quoted Farquad in real time as he said this.

Unless he’s done it more than once, which is sadly possible.

What is this from?

Wow, a draft in the US. That’s a wild prediction. The last video in the series on Invidious where he actually tries to justify it.

Edit: You can probably skip the first 23 minutes if you know basic geopolitics concepts.

He doesn’t actually go into the draft thing at all. Maybe he doesn’t understand the US domestic politics of that well enough. There is discussion about ground troops being needed just because this is a bigger adversary than the some of the past ones, although that leaves the question of how much bigger.

The basic idea that Iran has way more options and better strategy holds, but he doesn’t touch on the disparity in the cost of just losing. Actually, he seems to think the US’s cost is higher. Parts of the US escalation ladder also seemed a bit backwards.

There’s some other new-to-me ideas in there, especially towards the end. Definitely was worth the watch. I’d do the one in OP too but these videos are long. Maybe later.

Okay, RoughRomanMemes is fully leaking at this point.

I guess it depends how you define civilisation. Usually “they left momuments for us to find” is close to what gets used, which of course is going to correlate strongly with transportation.

(also aqueduct but less so)

It bugs me that after all the effort they put into aqueducts and sewers, they still ended up with a typical ancient parasite load, probably from unclean public baths and garum.

That seems like it implies humans are better on wheels, even though you’ve taken an anti-wheel stance in general.

and making sure that continental US food is available in South Korea and Guam to ensure morale is maintained.

I get that not everybody is adventurous, but damn, the idea that you’re deployed in the military, and your big problem is that you have to eat ribs as galbi instead of with a rub from home.

In the sense they extend rules across Europe, sure. In being a colonial empire that pretty single-directionally funnels wealth to itself and it’s Emperor, no.

The historical comparison I’m making here would be Justinian I vs. Emperor Wu. One put the recently dead empire back together, setting the stage for it to unify over and over again, the other tried but failed.

Hmm. Sounds like Marx. Maybe it’s a general 19th century German thing.

War is when you get an idea to invade a place, and then just do it. Politik is the next president’s problem.

Wouldn’t any civilian endpoint they’re buying be designed to use IP?

Which happens, but then a different idiot tends to fix it. See what happened with the Starlink-controlled drones.

That would require someone who could stop a Trump invasion, and who also deeply understands and cares about the region.

Most people in America, and who run America DGAF. Some nerds from the State Department or DIA probably objected, but we can guess how that went.

The options, like, Europe has to stop this are not very good ones.

Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.

They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it.

In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.

Hexbear: It’s actually helping a lot with Chinese characteristics.

At least fast enough to meet the buyer’s deadline, EZ.